THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 50
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Mamie's funeral tomorrow See story three
Friday, November 2, 1979
See story page three
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Custodians, state officials to air contract complaints
By PAMELA LANDON
Staff Renarter
A state official and a Carlin staff member will meet with the KU Custodians Action Committee and its support group next week. The committee will also aid a KU custodian announced yesterday.
Steve Millstein, special assistant to the governor for legislative matters, and Pat Harley, state secretary of administration. He also took the CAC at 1 a.m., Nov. 7. Vanwashue said.
Don Smith, assistant press secretary for the governor, confirmed that the meeting was scheduled. Smith and his support group had been set for some next week. However, he could not confirm next week.
He said discussion would center on the University's contract with American Management Services, a private custodial management firm based in Englewood, Colo., that the University of Kansas hired him to manage its housekeeping department.
"HURLEY AND MILSTEIN are meeting with the CAC so that they can become better acquainted with the group and what they stand for." Smith said.
He said they would be reporting to Gov. John Carlin about the meeting, which was set up at the CAC's request.
"I feel like this is a major breakthrough," he said. "We hope this will serve as a model to the KU administration."
VanDyne said he was excited about the meeting.
Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare and a support group member, said he was delighted that the meeting had been arranged.
At two press conferences, the CAC and its support group have expressed dissatisfaction with the AMS contract with the University.
The CAC has said that the contract the University has with AMS rewards AMS with higher profits if the firm releases custodians.
The CAC, a group of 40 to 50 Lawrence campus custodians, has been meeting since August to research and document the hazards of harassment of KU custodians jy AMS.
The CAC also has alleged that AMS harassed older and handicapped workers to get them to quit and that now fewer custodians are doing more work than ever.
MEMBERS OF THE CAC's support group include social agencies, community service organizations, faculty and students.
The CAC and its support group also have expressed a desire to talk with KU officials
about the contract, which comes up for renewal Dec. 1.
HOWEVER, University officials have said they can discuss custodial complaints only with the union that represents them.
Mike Davis, University general counsel,
said the governor's office could meet with
the CAC because the office did not employ
the custodians.
The CAC also has said it would include the University in any legal actions it took against AMS.
THE CAC WAS to have filed action yesterday with the Public Employees Relations Board in Topeka concerning allegation of CAC members. However, a support group member said would not be filled until early next week.
The CAC cited a complaint Tuesday asking the state legal panel of the American Court for a violation of AMS to court for alleged violation of custodians' rights to free speech and privacy.
Rodger Orkse, KU director of support services, has said that he thought the custodians' complaints of harassment were unfounded.
Oroké said yesterday that he had no comment about the meeting of the CAC with Harley and Millstein.
ADPi issue still unsettled
The Association of University Residents,
the Association of University Residents, and
negotiate with Alpha Omicron Pi security
before sorority pledges are guaranteed
spaces in a university residence hall next
A plan for negotiations with the sorority was included in a resolution adopted by the assembly between a 20-10 vote. voter. Two persons abstained from voting.
The move followed a three-hour-long housing services committee meeting on Oct 17 to determine the location of residence halls debated the desirability of housing Alpha Omicron Pi pledges in a study.
Fred McElhenne, director of the office of residential programs, said national representatives of AOPI were promised spaces on a University residence hall floor.
He said the decision was made by himself, Ann Eversole, director of the office of student organizations and activities, and Carry Smith, dean of student life.
IN RETURN FOR space in a residence hall next year, McEhlene has said that the sorority promised to provide housing for its sorority members by the fall of 1981.
The resolution stated that if any group was given priority in the residence hall system, a "dangerous precedent" would be set.
According to the resolution, preferential treatment given to any group by the residence hall students would encourage them to avoid neglecting the housing needs of other fraternities and sororites on campus and would provide funding of a private organization.
The AURH resolution stated that if any group was given special treatment, the AURH resolution was by compromising the uniqueness of residence hall way of life," reducing the already limited available space and men and women in the coeducational halls.
"WE ALSO DO not wish to ban Alpha students from our residence resolution. "Rather, we simply do not want to see the sorcerity or any other group given preference within the hall. It is our responsibility to ensure that all residence hall space should have to go through the same established University rules."
The resolution also called for negotiations to begin between representatives from AURH, AOPi and the University to reach an 'encouitable solution' to the dispute.
Jay Smith, president of AURH, said a meeting among himself, Eversole, McElheney, Bill Dahlman, AURH housing services committee chairman, and a local
representative of AOPI had been scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 6.
"THIS WILL REPRESENT the beginning of our talks," Smith said. "No agenda or goals have yet been set."
"The resolution is a very workable document. It's a positive step. I do not feel the proposal will hamper our discussions. It will possibly enhance them."
In other business, the assembly voted to submit a bid to the National Association of College and University Residence Halls to bring the 1918 national conference to KU.
If the bid is accepted by the association, about 70 to 1,000 delegates from 114 member schools will attend the conference. Myers, AURI social program chairman.
CHRISTOOD/Kensan staff
He also said the University would host the 1980 Midwest conference of the organization Aug. 1-5.
MYERS SAID THE purposes of the conferences were to enlighten the leaders of residence hall governments and allow them to exchange ideas.
The assembly also granted funding for a Thanksgiving dinner and trip to Kansas City, Mo., for residence hall members who will stay in the halls during vacation.
The dinner will be at the St. Lawrence Center on Thanksgiving Day. The following day, a chartered bus will travel to the Plaza for the event. All total costs for the events were set at $250.
Dinner time at the Sunflower House 1406 Tennessee St., means two to three hours of preparation for a food to feed 23 persons.
Katie Miller, Overland Park junior, passes to the corn mufs for last night's meal. See story page five.
Sunflower chef
Med Center experimental brace aids Muscular Dystrophy patient
BY ROSEMARY INTFEN
Staff Reporter
The boy clung to the sturdy walls of the doorway, looking down on the strange set
of steel and plastic bands encasing his legs.
He lingered a moment, unsure of releasing his grip on the door. Slowly his
The Hip, Knee, Ankle and Foot Orthopedic Center makes that is being tried at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The brace helps a handicapped person walk with confidence.
The brace costs about $2,200.
Shaky step
Andy Shewmaker, trying out his Hip, Knee, Ankle and Foot Orthosis, receives a help hand from John Redford, chairman of the department of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Shewmaker is the second patient to receive the brace at the Med Center.
arms dropped. He swaived momentarily, regained his balance and then cautiously took four small, stiff steps with the help of the foreign brace.
For 10-year-old Andy Shewmaker, the steps were a sign that the brace supporting him would be his temporary rescue from the wheelchair.
Andy, a victim of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, is the second patient to experiment with the new braces.
"WE'VE PUT SOME familiar components together in a new combination," said John Redford, chairman of the department of rehabilitation medicine.
Developed in 1978 by Louisiana State University orthosthetist Roy Douglas, the brace is designed to automatically bend the knees and flex the legs for the task. It is also used by staff orthosthetis-prosthetic. A prosthesis is an artificial replacement for a limb.
A curved steel cable encircles Andy's spine and connects to the brace at the hip joint, which is locked.
"The hip joint cable makes the legs nonerecive." Sowe said.
1. If the brace is successful, Andy will be able to walk for another two or 2½ years before going to a wheelchair.
"WE'RE REALLY anxious because at the end of his ability to walk, he was in a coma for more years," Mrs. Robert Shewaker works with adjusted airplane straps that are designed.
Andy, a third grade at Courteney elementary school in independence, Mo., was found to have MD when he went for his kindergarten entrance test at the age five. He has been walking with the help of ankle-bone brace for about two years.
"His knees buckle and his body sways,
He can't keep his balance with those," Ssa said, pointing to a small set of plastered orthosis, that support Andy's lower legs.
Mrs. Shewmaker said, "We're hoping these braces will keep him ambulating and there won't be as much swaying.
See BRACES page 11
Solbach seeks aid exemptions in proposed open records bill
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The records of Kansans receiving State financial assistance should be exempted from the proposed upon records bill, accords and other legal attorney for the Kansas Legal Services.
"For many people accepting financial aid, 'a first time event,' she said yesterday. "It's a psychological strain dependent, without it being public known."
Stewart's request will be presented today to the Legislative State and Financial Affairs Committee by Rep. John Sobach, Bath. A member of the interim committee.
The committee has been meeting periodically since the 1979 legislative session to draft an open records proposal. Today will be the committee's last meeting and the proposal will be amended for the next three before going to the full Legislature.
Solbach said, "I'm concerned with
balancing the public's right to know and the individual's right to privacy.
"I TEND TO AGREE with Ms. Stewart.
It's important that these people who are forced, through illness and disability, to receive public assistance should not be exposed to public scrutiny."
Kansans can receive state assistance through two funds: the General Assistance Fund and the Federal Child Care Only, and the Aid to Dependent Children program, which is made of State and Local aid.
According to Herman Hafenstein, during his tenure at the University of Rework, Services, the General Assistance Program provided funds to 1,6,999 Kansans during the October. The amount of funds provided by the General Assistance Program
The names of those recipients are on file with the county clerks in Kansas and are open to the public he said.
STEWART SAID people who were disabled, temporarily ill or unemployed could quality for GAP. The names of those
THE COMMITTEE WILL make a final draft of the proposal today, and the Legislative Coordination Council probably will approve it. Representatives in January, Soli´dant,
The proposal opens all records that are made, maintained, kept or in the record office. The records are exempted in the proposal, and records closed by current state or federal agency.
Kansans should be kept confidential, as are the names of those Kansans receiving Aid to Dependent Children funds, she said.
The current records law in Kansas makes public only those records that are required by law to be kept.
Classifieds begin elections
Hafsenen had ADC spent $ 5 million of assistance nationwide to about 5,632,800 people during October. However, the names of those recipients are not open to the public because part of the funds are federal, and the disclosure of names of assistance recipients.
By JEEFSJERVEN
Staff Renorter
after weeks of debate and correspondence with University of Kansas administrators, classified employees will be presented to the members of the Classified Senate today.
San Ove, accountant in the department of human development and family life and secretary of the Senate's intern steering committee, will distribute bills to the 1,000 classified distribution halles to the 3,900 classified
"We will be carrying the ballots to the classified employees," O'Neill said. The steering committee has divided the ballots up and hopes to hit every campus building.
The ballots should be returned to Joseph T. Collins, chairman of the interim com-
mittie, by Nov. 14, O'Neill said. The steering committee will meet to certify the ballots that night.
SENATORS WILL BE ELECT from six of categories for state employees, Collins said. EEO category two is excluded because it competes faculty, who are represented by colleges.
sixty-one candidates have been nominated to run for the Senate's 30 seats. The steering committee certified the nominees at a meeting Oct. 15.
The six-member council will coordinate
However, the candidate receiving the most votes in each of the EEO categories will be on the Senate's executive committee, Collins said.
Senate activities between formal meetings of the full Senate. Collins said,
One senator will be elected to represent administrative employees; three will represent community representatives; three will represent clerical staff; three will represent paraprofessional and technical employees; two will represent skilled crafts supervise students; one will represent service supervisors and security personnel.
THE KU ADMINISTRATION has acknowledged the Classified Senate and will allow the Senate to use University services used by other KU organizations.
The Classified Senate still awaits the endorsement of the Faculty Senate before it can be installed in University governance. The Senate already has recognized the Classified Senate.